Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai was born in Shanghai and moved with his family to Hong Kong at the age of five. His father was a sailor who later managed a nightclub, informing some of the subject matter in Wong's future films. His mother was a housewife. Wong's family was part of a wave of Shanghai residents who moved to Hong Kong after the communist takeover of their home province, bringing a unique culture and very specific dialect to Hong Kong with them. Hence, Wong grew up as part of something of a...

Wong Kar-wai Essays

The city depicted in Wong Kar Wai’s ‘Chungking Express’ is one that invites the viewers to ponder about the city as a setting for multiple, infinite and relational possibilities. Chungking Express is a film with two separate plots, comprised of...

Chungking Express (Hong Kong, 1994) is a film directed by Wong Kar-Wai, with a narrative that is divided into two different stories. The first part of the film follows the life of “Officer 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro)” while the second one follows the...